Okay, where do we begin? In Revelation chapter 6, verse 1, we're not going to go there this morning, but we have a land riding on a white horse. He enters the scene. He's called the Antichrist. He will not literally becoming riding a white horse. It just represents his personality and the fact that he is the so-called conquering hero. Every time you see a picture of a general who everybody just happened to love, they go to Whitehorse. So the anti-Christ comes in riding a Whitehorse, promising peace. So we have a lot of places I wanted to go to this morning, I'll never get to all of them, but let's begin if you will. I don't know. John chapter 8, I guess probably the best place to go, go from there. The We have that Christ will represent Satan, the Old Devil. He will think like Satan, as a matter of fact, we have a lot of people in our society who say they do that. Don't we? Yeah, most of our politicians think like the Old Devil. Most of our preachers think like Old Satan. In John chapter 8, verse 32, cover some verses real quick, and then we'll go on. The Lord Jesus Christ said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Do you know we live in a world that doesn't get the truth? They really don't. No, it gives me as I can understand why so many of our politicians think raising taxes is going to solve problems. I mean, these people are idiots, absolute idiots, it's just the opposite. taxes causes chaos. It's so ignorant. Then you got people like the American Civil Liberty Union. The only people they defend are Satan's people. They don't defend anybody else. And the Federal Regulatory Board, what a joke. There no wonder all the companies are leaving this country and going to Mexico and China and Japan because this country the government is running them out. You know why? They don't think godly. Why do They not think godly because they're not safe born again Christians. They think like Satan. It's only logical And things are gonna get worse But when you raise taxes All that does is put burdens on people Especially on businesses and then we have people in our society today that blame the rich for everything Oh, that was good for nothing rich But if it wasn't for the rich you wouldn't have a job you dummy me rich people give you jobs I've never seen a poor person give you a job do you a poor person is not going to give you a job yeah we live in a stupid anti-Christ thinking mentality society but Jesus said the truth shall make you free you'll be out of bondage what is the truth Christ died was buried and rose again for the forgiveness of sin that's the truth and if you believe that you'll have eternal life. That's the truth. But anything that's contrary to the truth, where does it come from? Verse 44. Jesus is talking to the political and religious leaders, and He said, in verse 44, here of your Father the devil, and the lust of your Father, you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not into truth, because there is no truth in Him. When he speak of the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it. Good old Satan, where does the lie come from, Satan? No truth comes from Satan. And we go to a church that doesn't agree with what the Bible says, I'm going to tell you where they get their doctrine from, Satan. Go to the 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 and chapter 11, tell you very specifically. And then back up to verse 43, after we just read these, I won't look at verse 43. Why do you not understand my speech, even because you cannot hear my word? Because it comes from a lie. You know, if it's a lie, there's no truth in it. Someone says, well, you know, they're Christians, but their salvation message isn't very good. I'm going to tell you something. If you believe that, you're pretty naive because if it begins with a lie, it's going to be a lie all the way through. That it doesn't matter. Well, yeah, that they have the truth, but the salvation message isn't, give me a break. If you believe that, you've got a problem. And verse 45, and because I tell you the truth, you believe me not. Isn't it funny how many people would rather not believe the truth? You can tell them Christ died on a cross-form paid for their sin, and they always say, yeah, no, but. There's always that little three-letter word, but I better shut up before I say something I'm going to regret. Which of you convicted your Bible may say, um, convinces, means the same thing? If I say the truth, why do you not believe me? Now everything that's contrary to the Bible is founded on a lie and it comes from Satan. When the Antichrist comes along the world will accept him. He'll be, he'll be, he'll solve everybody's problems. The trouble is he'll be a lie. Turn over if you will to first Thessalonians chapter 5, I believed what we were going to go. First Thessalonians chapter 5. Concerning the rap here the church, Paul said in chapter 5 verse 1, but of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. In other words, we don't even need to know when the rapture's going to take place. It doesn't. We don't need to know that. There's no reason to know that. It will take place some day. You may die first, but what's the difference? You're going to be part of the rapture one way or the other, whether you're dead or alive, so it really doesn't matter. You don't need to know just live according to the Bible and keep it that simple. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. That's not the rapture of the church by the way. That's a seven year tribulation. The day of Christ is the rapture. For when they shall say peace and safety, to stop their look up here for just a minute. When the Antichrist comes on the scene riding his white horse, it'll probably be a great big Cadillac won't be a white horse. He's going to say peace and safety. Here I am. I'm the one you've been looking for. I'm going to solve all your problems. I'm going to solve all your political problems, your religious problems, your money problems. I'm going to solve all your problems. And Israel is going to say, he's our Messiah. And I've got a book at home written by Jews. I've got two or three actually because I want to know how they think. They believe that when their Messiah comes he'll be a man. Isn't that stupid? Their own Bible tells them that you can't trust a man. Their own Bible says that the Messiah will be the king of righteousness, God, the Lord Jesus. Their own their own Bible but they just don't believe it. When the Antichrist comes along he will be a man, just a man. He will not be Barack Obama, by the way. He's just a type of the anti-Christ. If you remember when Barack Obama came on the scene, he promised to meet all kinds of promises. Everybody said, oh, isn't he wonderful? Everybody thought he was a God, isn't he wonderful? So he's been in office for about two years and everybody's afraid of him. He's not that wonderful, is he? He's a the perfect type of the antichrist. I feel sorry for Barack Obama because he has no idea what he even believes. He doesn't. He doesn't know if he's a Muslim, a Christian, a Catholic, an atheist, and he does have no idea what he is. I think he's one mixed up, fouled up human being. I can't stand looking at him, but I do feel sorry for him in a way. But anyway, of that stuff, get off of politics before they throw you out. When he comes along, he'll promise peace and safety, but notice the next part of that verse. Then sudden destruction comes up on them as to avail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape. He's going to come along and promise peace and safety and then immediately following that as soon as they say, oh yeah, this is the one they accept him. Daniel chapter 9 verse 27, he confirms the covenant with many, that means everyone for one week, seven years, and he's our Messiah. And I personally believe he'll probably be the 12th Imam that the Muslim is looking for. And the whole world will say, oh, isn't he wonderful? He go to White course. Chapter 2 of Second Thessalonians, if you will. You and I will never know who the anti-Christ is. Do you know that? We will know once he gets here but we won't be here. We'll be in heaven. In Chapter 2, Second Thessalonians, verse 1, now we be seated you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him. What is that? The rapture of the church. Second Thessalonians, chapter verse 1, we are gathered together. And then he said, verse 3, we're going to skip a verse, let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come. That's the day of the Lord. Verse 2, which is their tribulation, except they're coming, falling away first and that man upsend, be revealed, the Son of perdition. We already have two names for the the Antichrist called the Man of Sin and the Son of Pertition, but he will not be revealed until the church is gathered together. Some people look at events going on in the world of the day and you say, you know, that was the Antichrist yet. Well, you'll never know who he is if you're a Christian. You can't pick him out. I know there's a lot of people in the world that you might think is the Antichrist, but you will never know. In the rest of these verses here in 2nd Thessalonians, we have a perfect picture of the way the anti-Christ will think how he will act. Look in verse 4, the anti-Christ. Remember, he's going to have the mind of Satan. He's going to be 100% influenced by Satan. And I don't believe he's going to be in dwelt by Satan until the middle of the seven-year tribulation, but looking on that later, who opposes and exalted himself above all that is called God. Remember, he is 100% demonically influenced by Satan, who opposes and exalted himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he, as God, showeth himself that he a sith in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Now hold your place here. I want you to go to Isaiah chapter 14. We're going to come right back here just a couple of verses all the way back in Isaiah chapter 14. In Isaiah chapter 14, verse 12, this is Satan. Before he fell from heaven, he was called Lucifer. When he was cast out of heaven, his name was changed to Satan, the devil, the old serpent. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? By the way, your new Bible puts the words morning star in there, which is a lie. The word morning star is Jesus Christ. They took Lucifer out and put Jesus Christ in your NIV, the NAB, and some of the other Bible. So if you got those Bibles, give it to them, get a good King James, and get go from there. Son of the morning, how art thou cut to the ground? Who did we for thou hast set him thy heart? I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation. In verse 14, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the most high. Those are the words of Satan, back to second Thessalonians, if you will. For seven years, Old Satan will have his opportunity to fulfill those verses, but it won't be good. It won't be good for the earth and everybody on the earth. It won't be good for Satan, but it'll be seven years of his final exaltation, and then he will meet his end. But he's going to sit in the temple, claiming to be God, and it'll be short lived. Remember you not, verse 5, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things, and now you know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time. What is, though, withholdeth, by the way? You know what withholdeth. The Holy Spirit. You know, we live in a pretty devastating society, don't we? But do you know, if it wasn't for the Holy Spirit, you wouldn't be able to live in this society. You wouldn't be able to work in the morning. You wouldn't be able to come home in the evening. You wouldn't want you got home. It would be a terrible place to live. Mom and dad would be fighting with each other constantly. The children would be fighting with mom and dad constantly. It'd be a terrible battle because the Holy Spirit wouldn't be here. There would be no Holy Spirit in the world. Every politician and every preacher would be mean, rotten, despicable. Now, somebody gave me a piece of paper last week, I forget who it was, about a Presbyterian minister nearby who got in trouble with pornography on his computer. I believe it. I believe it. But everyone would be into that stuff. If the Holy Spirit wasn't on this earth, the restrainer, holding back sin, holding back Satan, holding back his little demons. If they weren't here, if the Holy Spirit wasn't here, it would be one terrible, well, we probably wouldn't even use this. By this time, the world would have self-exploded. Would have been tragic. Verse 7, for the mystery of aniquity that already work, I'm going to explain the mystery of aniquity, and then we will probably be out of time. The mystery of aniquity that already work. Only he who now let us will continue to let, or he who now hinder it will continue to hinder until he be taken out of the way. Who is the he? The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. Thank God for the Holy Spirit, amen. And then notice verse 8, and then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consumed with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even him who is coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. Look up here for just a minute. Let me give you an example of a lying wonder and there was a lot of other things I wanted to touch on but probably won't have time. It is a little charred up here I gave you. Wonder is not the truth, right? We have the Pentecostals today, and if you watch them on TV, or if you go to the Pentecostal Church or whatever, they'll say, if you receive the Pentecostal experience, it's wonderful. I was in the Spirit. I sang and shout and spoke and tongues and rolled around on the floor, and my wife wore a short dress and she rolled, but nobody noticed, because the Holy Spirit was behind it. a joke. On the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 verses 1 through 13, there was a mighty wind, tongues of fire, and languages. Do you know that has never happened again? You go to a Pentecostal church or a charismatic church anywhere, and they'll speak it around, speak in tongues and babble like a bunch of idiots, but you'll never find this happening. And the so-called pinnacle, it's a lie. The pinnacle of so movement is a lie. And then Peter stood up and said, this is that which was spoken out by the prophet Joel. That's what Peter said. And then he quoted the prophet Joel. Prophet Joel said in Prophet Joel, God said he would put his spirit up on all flesh. Well, if that's true, everybody in the Pentecostal Church, everybody walking the street and everybody in the entire world is all flesh, right? Then God would put his spirit up on all flesh, not just those people in that church acting like a bunch of idiots. It's a lie. And then he said, your sons and daughters would prophesy. Everybody would prophesy. Did that take place in the churches today? No. Did that take place in the book of Acts? No. Was everybody filled with the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts? No. Because there were people standing outside who said, oh, we don't believe this. What's going on here? This is crazy. It's a lie. Peter made a mistake and everybody who does it today is making a mistake, it's a lie. And then Joel said, they would dream dreams and have visions. Everybody, not just a few idiots in this church, this Pentecostal spirit-filled, holy spirit-filled church, it's a lie. There would be wonders in heaven and earth. By the way, none of those things in Joel took place in a book of Acts, not one. Wonders in heaven and earth, you ever been to a Pentecostal meeting and see wonders in heaven and earth. I don't think so. It's a lie. Oh, but I feel good. Oh, man, I feel good. I went home feeling good. I didn't learn a damn thing, but I sure feel good. Right. And then, of course, there's blood, fire and smoke. None of that took place in the book of Acts. Peter made a mistake. None of that takes place in a pentacostle church, either. It's a lie. Right straight out of heaven. Where does it come from? Well, if done come from God has come somewhere right, comes from good old Satan. And then of course the sun becomes dark. Well did that take place at Pentecost? No. Does that take place in a Pentecostal church today? Well if they're according to the Bible it should but it doesn't, it's a lie. Hey, I'm sorry folks, it's a lie. And then of course the moon turned to blood. Now remember Peter quoted all this at this is that which was Peter you were wrong. Why was Peter wrong? Looking for the kingdom which takes place when? Absolutely and that's when the prophecy of Joel is fulfilled. But do you know our Pentecostal preachers don't know that? You know why they don't know that? They don't want to know that because that's the truth. And they're not saved. A lot of them are just getting rich off of all the shenanigans are doing. Yeah, all kinds of reasons. All kinds of reasons. A lie to take people's money, think they're being healed and everything. It's just a big scheme. And it's all a lie. I'm all about feeling good, but I mean, that's just ridiculous. I'm all about feeling good, too. But I feel good when I go home in the morning on Sunday, especially, and I know what the Bible says, and I know that I have eternal life. And I know that someday the and I Christ is going to come and I'm not going to be here, I feel good about that. And I feel good about knowing the truth. I feel good about understanding what the truth is in the Bible. I feel good about that. And I feel good that I know that when problems come into my life, I may deserve it, but I do know that Jesus Christ has always there to help me through it. And there may be a reason for those problems. I feel good about that. I feel good about all that. Let's read on down in the middle of the closed, we're running out of time quickly. I wanted to explain the mystery of an equity, but if I don't forget, I'll be right next week. Verse 9, even him who's coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. Now just one more thing I need to point out, all of these things you see in the Pentecostal Church is a lying wonder, it's not the truth. And there's, you know, there's another thing coming to think of, Lord Jesus Christ, you go out there and you preach the gospel. Heal the sick. Didn't he say that? Raise the dead, didn't he say that? And if you got bit by a serpent, it wouldn't bother you, didn't he say that? And he also said, if you drink poison, it wouldn't bother you. I have an idea. I'm going to go to a Pentecostal church, one of these days, with a bottle of poison and a bucket full of snakes. And I'm going to say preacher, you sit on those snakes and drink this poison and see what happens. See if you don't get your hind end bit you rattlesnake you and see what happens when you drink that poison and then after you get all through with that if you're not dead let's go somewhere and rage the dead and see how that works for you. Why don't we try that or you just going to stick to slapping people on the head and claiming to heal them and then let's not go all that far. Let's go down to the children's ward at the west side of Cleveland to the hospital down there and heal some of those sick children. Do you ever see them? It's pretty sad. And if you're really a healer, let's go down there and heal those children. But they don't have faith. That's why they're not getting healed. Yeah, that's right. And then this is the ward tongues that tongues means that you've got to have an interpreter there to fix standing language. Tongues is very simply languages. That's right. did say while 30 tells you that yeah do we do all interpret but anyway I have right along I was going to finish the rest of this but we'll get back on it next week let me ask you a question aren't you lucky to know the truth how many of you think Jesus Christ died on a cross for you how many of you believe it do you really believe it? I think every hands up. I'm not sure. You know what, isn't it great? My Bible says that I'm a sinner. My Bible says I cannot work my way to heaven no matter what I do. Of course the Calvinist, he says you're chosen, so you don't have to worry about it. You just go home, of course he's a liar too. You're not chosen. But the Bible says I'm a sinner. This represents my sin. I can go hell and pay for it, or I can believe the Bible, which is the truth, which is the words of Jesus Christ, debangely inspired by the Holy Spirit, and neither one of them lied, because they're part of the Trinity. He said he was married. He was hung that nailed to the cross, buried and rose again. All I have to do is believe it. How simple. How simple. Of course you got to believe with your heart, by the way, not your head, you have two belief systems. Did you know that? That I'm kidding. The very second you believe Christ paid for your sins with his death, burial and resurrection, Marx had paid, puts it to his account, and you have eternal life. That is the truth, but not important to say. But I'm glad I'd never listen to him, aren't you? I'm glad I listened to the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's have word of prayer and we'll close. Dear Lord, we thank You for Christ, we thank You for the truth, and we thank You for the fact that if the rapture takes place today, we will miss the Antichrist. Thank God. But the world that rejects God Christ the cross, the truth, will be left behind to go through seven years, facing the Antichrist who is none other than the manifestation of Satan. Thank you Lord, that I don't have to get involved in that in Christ's name. Amen. Okay, let's see here. I think it's, let me see.